Interest of the book written by Roland Bazin and Frederic Flament is to show for the first time precise and exhaustive images of aging for Indian population. By analyzing other ethnics in their previous books, they show also that aging signs are universal even if age of apparition of signs could distinguish ethnic origins. For medical specialists there is a real interest to establish a correlation between age of panelists and signs described in present book to lead them to therapies more adapted to drift with the norm.
Robin MOOKHERJEE, MD Plastic Surgeon Paris, France As a skin of color expert, it is indeed an honor and a pleasure to write the preface for this extensive Skin Aging Atlas focused on Indian skins. The pictures are high quality accurate and fill lacunae. In this area, where the need for a pictorial representation of darker skins is required, this atlas will be an excellent reference and manual for those already working with skin of color and those who wish to start working with darker skin types.
Mukta SACHDEV, MD Professor of Dermatology Bangalore, India
The objective evaluation of facial aging is a difficult exercise. Many publications have appeared over the past few years that seek to classify facial aging : crow's feet, glabellar wrinkles, ear lobe aging, neck sagging, etc. These publications show the advantages and need for objective evaluation tools for facial aging. These tools make it possible to classify homogeneous patient populations and greater objectivity in the study and evaluation of the "before/after" results of anti-aging treatments.
"Skin Aging Atlas" is the latest contribution to these classifications. It is also the first true topographic atlas of facial aging. In a single booklet, it offers all the criteria for evaluating the aging of Caucasian men's and women's facial skin.
In the first part, this atlas, assembled by R. Bazin, describes the single methodology used for each criterion.
Each classification thus allows a precise grade to be given to a specific region of the face (glabellar wrinkles, crow's feet;, neck sagging, etc.). Thanks to this unique methodology, the classifications can also beused together to evaluate the general aging of the face.
This atlas is therefore particularly useful, and perhaps essential, for professors and researchers interested in facial aging, and for practitioners, doctors, dermatologists and plastic surgeons wishing to evaluate the results of local "anti-aging" treatments (e.g. botulinum toxin on crow's feet) or more general treatments (e.g. results of a face-lift or peeling).
Clear explanations and the illustrative quality of the photographic plates make the atlas easy and practical to use, and the quality of the binding facilitates handling.
This atlas is therefore modern and comprehensive, encompassing the current state of knowledge on the subject in a homogeneous unit. By using it to evaluate medical and surgical rejuvenation treatments, it has finally become possible to assess each area of the face and the face as a whole.
The author should be hailed for completing and summarizing this excellent work, which is the fruit of his years of experience as evaluation director at the L'OREAL RESEARCH department.
"Skin Aging Atlas" will undoubtedly become the gold standard of aging evaluation tools for the Caucasian face.
The Skin Aging Atlas: African American Type is a triumph. This book represents a meticulous characterization and classification of African American skin as it ages.
Such an in-depth photographic analysis has never been published for this group of people, a group which is too often overlooked in aesthetic research. The presentation is clear, concise, and deceptively straight-forward, a testimony to the amount of thought and care that went into the preparation of this work. And, while this atlas stands on its own merits, it is even more valuable when considered as the third installment in the trilogy of Skin Aging Atlases published, with Caucasian Type and Asian Type already in print. Taken together, these books enable us to see similarities and differences in aging across different ethnicities. ?
Dr Victoria H. Barbosa??Dark skin seems to better resist the effects of aging. Cosmetic surgery such as blepharoplasty or brow lifts is far more infrequent, and medical treatment, such as injections, is not proposed until subjects are significantly older. Dark skin does age, but differently. The aim of this work is to show precisely how. Apart from providing lay readers with valuable insights, the approach explained in this atlas enables clinicians, plastic surgeons, dermatologists and practitioners of aesthetic medicine to more thoroughly analyse degrees of aging in the different facial areas, thus facilitating therapeutic decision making and delivering appropriate, precise tools for treatment result evaluation. It can also provide patients with a preview of the expected, potential, or probable result of surgery. ?
